RIVERSIDE: School for deaf administrator to lead state division

California School for the Deaf in Riverside's student services specialist Scott D. Kerby is the new director of the State Special Schools and Services Division.

State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson announced the appointment Thursday. The division oversees the Riverside school as well as the California School for the Deaf in Fremont; the California School for the Blind in Fremont; and Diagnostic Centers in Fremont, Fresno and Los Angeles that serve students with special needs, their parents and public schools.

Kerby began his career as an educator in 1980 at the School for the Deaf in Riverside, where he was the athletic director and adapted physical education specialist. He left in 1989 and worked in Inland school districts, including positions as principal or vice principal at several elementary and middle schools in San Bernardino. For the past decade, he also has been an adjunct professor at the University of Redlands.

He returned to the School for the Deaf a year ago, said school spokeswoman Laurie Pietro Waggoner.

Kerby plans to spend Mondays through Wednesdays at his California Department of Education office in Sacramento, Thursdays visiting schools in his division and Fridays at an office on the Riverside campus, she said.

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